I built a $19 tool for a pricing problem I kept seeing in bookkeeping
I built a $19 tool for a pricing problem I kept seeing in bookkeeping
I noticed a recurring problem with fixed-fee bookkeeping clients:
The monthly fee stays the same, but the workload doesn't.
A client might start at $1,200/month and take 15 hours of work.
Then, over time:
- More emails
- More meetings
- More revisions
- More requests
- More administrative work
The client is still paying $1,200.
But the effective hourly rate has dropped.
The difficult part isn't calculating the hourly rate.
It's deciding when a client has become unprofitable enough to justify a pricing change.
So I built Reprice, a small decision-support tool for professional bookkeepers.
You enter things like:
- Current monthly fee
- Actual time spent
- Direct costs
- Target effective hourly rate
It then helps you determine whether to:
Keep → Review → Reprice → Repackage → Exit
It's deliberately simple. No subscription, no complicated setup, and no AI.
The price is $19.
I'm not trying to build a huge SaaS around this. I'm trying to find out whether this is actually a useful problem to solve.
So I'm particularly interested in hearing from bookkeepers:
How do you currently review whether a fixed-fee client is still profitable when their workload changes?
Do you use a spreadsheet, time-tracking software, accounting software, an internal process, or do you mostly handle it when the problem becomes obvious?
I'd especially appreciate hearing what you currently do and what's frustrating about that process.
